Chromatin Loop Mechanism (IMAGE)

Rice University

Chromatin Loop Mechanism

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The protein complex that forms DNA loops takes up slack by feeding DNA through from either direction until it hits the DNA keyword, or motif, which acts like a brake. The motifs must point in the correct direction; if they point away from the protein complex, it will not recognize them and will keep taking up slack.

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A. Sanborn, S. Rao

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